Anatomy, physiology, pathology, dictionary / edited by W.A. Evans, Adolph Gehrmann, William Healy.
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Anatomy, physiology, pathology, dictionary / edited by W.A. Evans, Adolph Gehrmann, William Healy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Metrorrhagia myopathica. Uterin hemorrhage in women who have borne children, resulting from insuf- ficient contractile power of the uter- in musculature. Microdentism. The condition of hav- ing smaller teeth than normal. Microspironema. A name offered for the recently discovered germ of syphilis. Vide Treponema. N Nephroson. A proprietary diuretic sourwood compound. O Organotherapy, Heterologous a. Treat- ment by substances of animal origin having no relationship to the special organs diseased in the patient. Organotherapy, Homologous o. Treat- ment by which deficiency in the function of a certain organ is re- lieved by administration of remedial derivative from similar organs of the lower animals. P Pallanesthesia. Inability to perceive the kind of sensation produced by the tuning-fork applied to some por- tion of the body. Coincides with loss of the muscular sense. Pallesthesia. The sensation experi- enced upon the application of the tuning-fork to some portion of the body. A function of the fine nerve fibers of all the subcutaneous tis- sues and not of cutaneous sensibil- ity. Paludides. [L. palus, swamp ] Any cutaneous eruptions resulting from malarial infection. Pegnin. A powder to be added to cow’s milk to aid its digestion by infants. The milk is first coagulated and then the curds are finely divided by shaking. Peptid. A proteid body artificially produced by blending various amino- acids. A series of peptids have been produced and they all present the important characteristic reac- tions of. the peptones. Perialienitis. Inflammation in the neighborhood of a foreign body, par- ticularly in the neighborhood of a biliary concretion. Phrenoptosis. Downward displace- ment of the diaphragm. Polynucleosis. The condition of hav- ing many polynuclear cells in the blood or in an exudate. Polypeptid. Crystalline, soluble chem- ical bodies giving the biuret reaction and split up by trypsin. They are artificially produced by uniting some of the elementary components of proteid molecules which have been disintegrated by hydrolysis. Pyremia. [Gr. pyr. fire, that which burns.] The condition of the blood which contains carbonaceous matter not in excess of the physiological capacity of the organism. Q Quadriplegia. Paralysis of all four limbs. R Radioactivity. The property possessed by a substance of expelling from it- self charged particles of matter capable of passing through the in- terspaces of other matter and so producing kinetic, thermal, electric or chemical phenomena. Radiode. Metallic capsules containing radium with aluminum or mica win- dows and attached to various hold- ers for treating the interior of the body. Radiogram. A shadow picture or pho-; tograph made by radium. Radiologist. A person who is versed in the theory and use of the various emanations from radioactive sub- stances. Radion. One of the actual material particles thrown off by radioactive substances and which go to form certain parts of their rays. Radi- ons are also called emanations and corpuscles. Rays, Alpha r. Those emanations from radioactive substances which have the lowest velocity and the lowest penetration. They are elec- trically positive. Rays, Becquerel r. Those emanations or radiations which constantly and spontaneously are given forth by uranium, radium and other radio- active substances. Rays, Beta r. Those emanations from radioactive substances which have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28061081_0255.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
